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"I am here because I want to see my Nicaragua free, it hurts that children like me are dead, but we must continue to fight to get out this dictator," says a student of 15 years at the March of Flowers, which was made in the honor of the youth killed during the troubled months
PROTEST. Flowers are seen on a Nicaraguan national flag during the "Marcha de las Flores" – in honor of the children killed during the demonstrations – in Managua on June 30, 2018. Photo by Marvin Recinos / AFP
MANAGUA, Nicaragua – At least two protesters were killed and 11 others injured in Nicaragua on Saturday, June 30, said a human rights group, as thousands of protesters marched against President Daniel Ortega across the country. Central American country. two months of anti-Ortega agitation were suppressed by government forces that killed at least 220 people.
A 23-year-old street vendor was shot in the head when some walkers moved away from the planned route, According to Luis Ortiz, the elderly father of the man, who fought alongside the president there was several dozen years ago when Ortega was a rebel commander Sandinista
. I imagined that my son would die in the hands of someone with whom I was fighting so hard. I gave my sweat and my blood … I am also a wounded veterinarian. "
" I'm still a Sandinist, "he added," but not with Daniel, "referring to the president.At the beginning of the march, gunmen fired on a barricade of demonstrators at the lorry station. National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), where the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) said that a man had been killed behind barricades erected by students. "I am here because I want to see my Nicaragua free, it hurts that children like me are dead, but we must continue to fight to get out this dictator, "said a 15-year-old student wearing a ski mask at Agence France.
On the one hand, he waved a Nicaraguan flag, and on the other he held a mortar.
"Against the new dictatorship"
In Other cities, including The Marches of Leon, Masaya and Granada were also organized by the Allianc Civic for Justice and Democracy.
The protests were the first Since May 30, a big march of Mother's Day has been bloody after the attack of pro-government forces and the death of 18 people.
Protesters demand the resignation of Ortega, a 72-year-old former guerrilla left in power. with the popular uprising that defeated dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, and took over the presidency in 2007.
Activists accuse him of establishing – with his wife Vice President Rosario Murillo – nepotism , dictatorship and brutal repression.
"I have always walked, and today more than for our dead, for children, I regret the murders committed by Ortega and Rosario.I was in 1979 against Somoza and now against the new dictatorship, "said Cecila Cruz, 67.
The march, backed by the powerful trade union – formerly allied with Ortega – had been suspended a week ago due to the violent incursion of riot police and paramilitaries in several areas of the country
The Civic Alliance has repelled the protest to take advantage of the visit of experts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Officials came to the country in the face of increasing repression and met with delegates from the government and the Alliance, as well as victims of violence.
With the mediation of the The Catholic Church, the Government and the Alliance resumed talks Monday
But the dialogue is struggling to take off because Ortega, whose third consecutive term ends in January 2022, will not consider a proposal to to advance the elections. from 2021 to March 2019. – Rappler.com
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